How did economics help to end Republicans rule in the south and reconstruction?
After a powerful banking firm went bankruptcy, a wave of panic spread, the panic soon turned into a full on depression. The scandals in the Grant administration and the deepining of the depression hurt the Republicans politically in the election of 1874. they ended up loosing.
After a powerful banking firm went bankruptcy, a wave of panic spread, the panic soon turned into a full on depression. The scandals in the Grant administration and the deepining of the depression hurt the Republicans politically in the election of 1874. they ended up loosing.